Zion shall be redeemed through justice, and those who turn back in her, through righteousness. Isaiah 1:27 Robert Alter Through – The NASB renders this verse differently. “Zion will be redeemed with justice And her repentant ones with righteousness.” The difference is the translation of the preposition bĕ. As you know, Hebrew prepositions play a lot of…
Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You. My heart throbs, my strength fails me; and the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me. Psalm 38:9-10 NASB My desire – Edward Mote (1797 to 1874) wrote the famous hymn, “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and…
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for He will receive me. Selah Psalm 49:15 NASB Receive – If the Tanakh really doesn’t have a clear concept of Heaven, then what can this verse mean? Doesn’t it imply that there is redemption from Sheol? Doesn’t it suggest that God “saves” us from the eternity…
For the redemption of his soul is priceless, and he should cease imagining forever—That he might live on eternally, that he might not undergo decay. Psalm 49:8-9 NASB Priceless – What does a priceless work of art cost? More than you have, that’s for sure. But the question itself is nonsense. What is priceless can’t be bought! That’s the point…
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today.Deuteronomy 4:20 NASB Brought you out– In a parallel passage, God’s act of redemption is described in Moses’ final speech with the Hebrew word qereb (Deut 4:34). In that description, Moses recalls the astounding redemptive act as…
Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt. Exodus 3:16 NASB Indeed concerned– Frankly, this translation is pathetic. I don’t mean it…
“O LORD, rebuke me not in Your wrath, and chasten me not in Your burning anger.” Psalm 38:1 NASB Wrath – “Rebuke me not in Your wrath” we read in English. But the Hebrew is more dramatic. The first word is the prefix “not.” David has fixed the emphasis on what is most desperately needed. “YHVH,…
No man can by any means redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him— Psalm 49:7 NASB Redeem – Context, context, context. Without the context, this verse seems to oppose the very idea that Yeshua acts as a substitute sacrifice for sinners. Of course, the idea of substitutionary atonement is a Reformation…
“I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine and with pestilence,” declares the LORD, “until I have destroyed it by his hand.” Jeremiah 27:8 NASB By his hand – God uses people outside the fellowship to bring about correction, chastisement and punishment for the faithful. That’s right, God uses pagan, nonbelievers to accomplish…
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:13-14 NASB He/his – In recent dialogue these verses were used to prove that Yeshua’s death on the cross was for the atonement of our sins. …
